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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,

technological development and demonstration under

grant agreement no 612279

Accurate Simulations in Hydro-Machinery

and Marine Propellers (ACCUSIM)

Deliverable D.5.4: Dissemination of Results through Direct

Communication

Document identifier: ACCUSIM_Dissemination_DirectCommunic_D.5.4_v01.doc Preparation date: 09/01/2018

Version: 01 State: Final

Distribution: Public Issued : Aljaž Škerlavaj

Verified : Dragica Jošt Approved : Enrico Nobile

Call Identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP Call Theme: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)

Contract start date: 01/02/2014 Duration: 48 months

Project coordinator: Kolektor Turboinštitut Participating partner: University of Trieste

Project website: www.accusim.eu

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Document History Version Date Amended by Changes

01 09/01/2018 Aljaž Škerlavaj Document creation

Contributors Both partners contributed and agreed with the content of this deliverable, which is the property of the ACCUSIM consortium. This document may be copied and reproduced. It may not be modified neither whole nor partially for any purpose without written permission from the ACCUSIM project coordinator with acceptance of the Project Consortium.

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Executive Summary

During the 48 months of the project (between February 2014 and end of January 2018), many dissemination and outreach activities were performed. This report presents dissemination of results through direct communication channels (conferences, presentations and summer school). Different direct communication channels were used to cover various targeted audiences.

Note

In the email correspondence (13/03/2017) with Project Officer Olivier Delaunoy it was accepted that this deliverable can be created in month 48 instead of in month 40 of the project.

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 6

2 Dissemination activities through direct communication channels ................................................. 7

2.1 List of conference-related dissemination activities ................................................................ 7

2.2 Dissemination activities performed at KTI or UNITS ............................................................... 9

3 Summer school – month M44 ....................................................................................................... 13

3.1 Summer School poster and final program ............................................................................ 14

3.2 Pictures from the Summer school ......................................................................................... 16

3.3 Summer School Proceedings ................................................................................................. 19

4 Tutorial for students at UNITS (version May 2016) ....................................................................... 50

5 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................... 77

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Abbreviations

CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics

mF modeFRONTIER© (optimization software)

KTI Kolektor Turboinštitut

UniTS University of Trieste

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1 Introduction

The ACCUSIM project aims to identify, develop and apply accurate, high-fidelity CFD approaches for

the numerical predictions of the unsteady, turbulent and possibly cavitating flow in hydraulic

turbines, pumps and marine propellers, and to develop advanced shape and functional optimization

strategies for the best design of these systems.

During the 48 months of the project (between February 2014 and end of January 2018), many

dissemination and outreach activities were performed. This report presents dissemination through

direct communication channels. In order to cover scientific community, broader technical

community, university students and high-school pupils, as well as the companies, different direct

communication channels were used (Table 1).

Table 1: Covering targeted audiences by various dissemination activities.

Targeted

audience

Dissemin.

activity

Scientific

community

Broader technical

community

University (under-

graduate and PhD

students,

professors)

High-school

pupils

Companies

International

conferences and

workshops

X

Regional

conferences,

user's meetings,

courses, seminars

X X X

Presentations at

KTI and UNITS X X X

Summer school X X X X

The detailed list of all publications (including conferences, workshops, user's meetings, etc.), is

presented in deliverable D.5.2. All scientific papers from conferences or workshops are included at

the end of the deliverable D.5.2.

In this deliverable the proceedings of the summer school are included.

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2.1 List of conference-related dissemination activities

The table below is a list of activities, where results of the ACCUSIM project were presented at

conferences, meetings, courses or workshops. The description of these activities can be found in the

deliverable D.5.2, Dissemination of Results at National and International Scientific Conferences and

Workshops.

Month Activity

M8 Attendance at Slovenian regional conference ‘Kuhljevi Dnevi 2014’ (Kuhelj’s Days, in

memoriam to prof. Kuhelj) (Maribor, Slovenia)

M11 Attendance at ‘Francis-99 Workshop’ (held at Luleå University of Technology)

M15 Presentation at regional conference ‘ANSYS Conference & 10. CADFEM User’s Meeting‘

(Vienna, Austria, 29-30/04/2015)

M16 Presentation at regional conference ‘ANSYS User Group Meeting 2015, Italy’ (Bologna,

Italy, 14-15/05/2015)

M16 Presentation at regional conference ‘ANSYS Convergence Conference-2015, Slovenia’

(Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27/05/2015)

M16 Attended the ‘Fourth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors’ (Austin, Texas, USA,

31/05/2015-04/06/2015) with two papers

M17 Attended the ‘NAFEMS World Congress 2015‘ (San Diego, California, USA, 21-24/06/2015)

with one paper

M18 Attended the ‘33rd UIT Heat Transfer Conference‘ (L'Aquila, Italy, 22-24/06/2015) with one

paper

M20 Presented three papers at the international IAHRWG2015 meeting (6th IAHR Meeting of

the Working Group "Cavitation and Dynamic Problems"); Ljubljana, Slovenia, 09-

11/09/2015

M20 Presentation at the regional conference 'Kuhljevi dnevi 2015' (Moravske Toplice, Slovenia,

24-25/09/2015)

M23 Presentation at the international conference ‘9th International Symposium on Cavitation -

CAV2015’ (Lausanne, Switzerland, 6-10/12/2015)

M26 Presentation at the NAFEMS Seminar ‘La Fluido-Dinamica Computazionale Nella

Simulazione Ingegneristica - Seminario di Sensibilizzazione’; Torino, Italy, 16/03/2016

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Month Activity

M28 Presentation at ‘modeFRONTIER User‘s Meeting 2016’ (Trieste, 17-18/05/2016)

M28 Presentation at ‘ANSYS Convergence Conference’ (Ljubljana, 25/05/2016)

M30 Presentation at the ‘34th UIT Heat Transfer Conference’ (Ferrara, Italy, 04-06/07/2016)

M33 Presentation of a poster at the Academy of Mech. Engineering & 5th International

Conference of Mechanical Engineers; Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18/10/2016;

Napoved kavitacije v vodnih turbinah z računalniško dinamiko tekočin – rezultati projekta

ACCUSIM (CFD Prediction of Cavitation in Water Turbines – results of the ACCUSIM project)

M35 Presentation for Association for Hydraulic Research (Društvo za hidravlične raziskave);

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15/12/2016;

M. Morgut: Napoved kavitacije v vodnih turbinah in propelerjih z računalniško dinamiko

tekočin - rezultati projekta ACCUSIM (Predictions of cavitating flow in hydro-turbines and

marine propellers by CFD - results of ACCUSIM project)

M37 Two papers with presentations at IAHR WG meeting (Porto, PT, 1.-3./02/2017);

D. Jošt: Numerical Prediction of Cavitating Vortex Rope in a Draft Tube of a Francis Turbine

with Standard and Calibrated Cavitation Model

A. Škerlavaj: Decoupled CFD-based optimization of efficiency and cavitation performance

of a double-suction pump

M41 Two presentations at the ERCOFTAC Design Optimization course (UniTS, 05-07/06/2017) -

optimization of a pump; optimization of a runner cone extension

M44 Presentation at "Kuhljevi dnevi 2017" conference (Stopar; Dobrna, Slovenia, 28/09/2017)

M45 Presentation of a poster at the Academy of Mech. Engineering 2017 & 6th International

Conference of Mechanical Engineers; Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26/10/2017;

Napoved kavitacije v Peltonovi turbini in v centrifugalni črpalki (Prediction of Cavitation in a

Pelton Turbine and in a Centrifugal Pump)

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2.2 Dissemination activities performed at KTI or UNITS

Month Activity

M12 Presentation at Turboinštitut's board of researchers by researcher R4 (Mitja Morgut)

M15 Presentation (seminar) at Dept. Eng. Architecture, University of Trieste, by researcher R2

(Dragica Jošt): "Numerical flow simulation and performance prediction for water turbines",

16/04/2015

M16 Tutorial for students of MSc Mechanical Engineering at the Dept. Eng. Architecture,

University of Trieste, by researcher R1 (Aljaž Škerlavaj): "CFD simulation of a simple

centrifugal pump", 25/05/2015.

M28 Presentation about turbines - for students at UNITS (by Dragica Jošt, on 05/05/2016)

The title of the presentation: ”Recent improvements of performance prediction by CFD for

all types of water turbines”

M28 Preparation of written instructions and conducting a tutorial for M. Sc. Mech. Eng. students

at UNITS (by Aljaž Škerlavaj, on 09/05/2016)

M33 Presentation to undergraduate students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Maribor,

Slovenia (Turboinstitut, Ljubljana, 24/10/2016) (by Dragica Jošt and Aljaž Škerlavaj)

M38 Dissemination for students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Maribor (Jošt, Stopar,

KTI, 24/03/2017); Francis Turbines (1. CFD, 2. optimization of the runner cone)

M38 Dissemination for students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Maribor, and for

students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Ljubljana (Stopar, KTI, 31/03/2017); Kaplan

Turbine - Introduction into Model Tests and Creation of the Hill Chart Diagram

M40 Dissemination for PhD students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Ljubljana (Stopar,

Jošt, Škerlavaj, KTI, 10/05/2017); Hydraulic machinery, cavitation, optimization

M40 Dissemination for students of University of Trieste (Škerlavaj, UNITS, 15/05/2017); CFD

analysis of a pump - tutorial

M44 Summer school of the ACCUSIM project (KTI, 25-27/09/2017)

M46 Dissemination for students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., University of Maribor, and for

Assistant Professor Elvis Žic from Faculty of Civil Engineering Rijeka, Croatia

(Jošt, Stopar, Škerlavaj, KTI, 12/11/2017); Hydraulic machinery, cavitation, presentation of

KTI's laboratory (with propeller model turbine in operation)

M47 Dissemination for pupils of Strojna šola Velenje (High School of Mechanical Engineering,

Velenje, Slovenia) (Škerlavaj, Krušec, KTI, 19/12/2017); hydraulic machines and CFD;

presentation of the KTI's laboratory

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2.2.1. Presentation at TI's Board of researchers by researcher R4 (Mitja Morgut) – month M12

On 9th January 2015 researcher R4 presented his research to the Board of researchers of

Turboinštitut. The title of the presentation was 'Research project ACCUSIM from origin to

realization'. In the presentation he showed his research work on cavitation modelling, with emphasis

on the usage of genetic optimization algorithm and open source solver OpenFOAM.

2.2.2. Seminar at UniTS by researcher R2 (Dragica Jošt) – month M15

On 16/04/2015 researcher R2 (Dragica Jošt) presented her research work to MSc and Ph.D. students,

as well as faculty members, of the Dept. of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Trieste

(a signed list of attendees is available upon request). The title of the presentation was 'Numerical

flow simulation and performance prediction for water turbines'. In the presentation she showed her

research work related to all types of water turbines, as well as a historical overview of such

simulations. The presentation was particularly appreciated, for its clarity and innovative nature of the

methods used, by both students and faculty.

2.2.3. Tutorial for students at UniTS by researcher R1 (Aljaž Škerlavaj) – month M16

On 25/05/2015 researcher R1 (Aljaž Škerlavaj) presented a 3-hours tutorial to the students of CFD

course (Termofluidodinamica Computazionale) of MSc in Mechanical Engineering. The title of the

presentation was "CFD simulation of a simple centrifugal pump". The goal was to teach the students

how to perform such non-trivial simulations. The students followed the course by working on their

computers in a computerized classroom. The tutorial was attended with enthusiasm and genuine

participation by the students, since they not only had the chance to attend - and work hands-on - on

this tutorial, but also had the opportunity to take advantage of the competence and experience of

the teacher in the simulation of turbomachines. The tutorial is available for students at the webpage

moodle2.units.it.

2.2.4. Presentation for students at UniTS by researcher R2 (Dragica Jošt) – month M28

In May 2016 (05/05/2016) Dragica Jošt presented some resent numerical results to the students of

UNITS. The title of the presentation was “Recent improvements of performance prediction by CFD

for all types of water turbines”. The presentation was focused on improvement of efficiency and

cavitation prediction with transient simulations using advanced turbulence models (SAS SST, zonal

LES). The results of the Francis'99 workshop and resent results for the axial turbines were included in

the presentation. Also results for Pelton turbines obtained with free surface model were presented.

2.2.5. Tutorial for students at UniTS by researcher R1 (Aljaž Škerlavaj) – month M28

On 09/05/2016 Aljaž Škerlavaj conducted a tutorial for M. Sc. Mech. Eng. students at UNITS about

numerical simulation of a pump, for which he also prepared written instructions (which form a part

of this deliverable). The tutorial is available for students at the webpage moodle2.units.it.

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2.2.6. Presentation to undergraduate students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., UNIMB – month M33

On 24/10/2016 the undergraduate students from Faculty of Mech. Engineering, University of

Maribor, Slovenia, visited Kolektor Turboinstitut. Dragica Jošt and Aljaž Škerlavaj gave short lectures

about the ACCUSIM project, and water turbines and pumps in general. The students were satisfied

with the visit of Kolektor Turboinstitut.


On 24/03/2017 the undergraduate students from Faculty of Mech. Engineering, University of

Maribor, Slovenia, visited Kolektor Turboinstitut during the Turboinštitut's "Board of researchers"

meeting. Dragica Jošt and Roberto Renato Stopar gave two lectures about numerical analyses of

Francis turbines and about optimization:

1. Numerical flow analysis with efficiency and cavitation prediction for the Francis turbine

2. Optimization of the runner cone extension in Francis turbines

The students received general information about Francis turbines and were introduced into

possibilities of CFD simulations, related to Francis turbines. KTI's laboratory and production line of

small turbines was presented to the students.

2.2.8. Presentation to undergraduate students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., UNIMB, and Faculty of

Mech. Eng., UNILJ – month M38

On 31/03/2017 another group of undergraduate students from Faculty of Mech. Engineering,

University of Maribor, Slovenia, and from Faculty of Mech. Engineering, University of Ljubljana,

Slovenia, visited Kolektor Turboinstitut. Roberto Renato Stopar gave a lecture about Kaplan turbines

and also presented a model of the Kaplan turbine in KTI's laboratory. Besides the KTI's laboratory, the

production of small turbines was presented to students.

2.2.9. Presentation to PhD students of Faculty of Mech. Eng., UNILJ – month M40

On 10/05/2017 the PhD students from Faculty of Mech. Engineering, University of Ljubljana,

Slovenia, visited Kolektor Turboinstitut. Roberto Renato Stopar, Dragica Jošt and Aljaž Škerlavaj gave

lectures about hydraulic machines, cavitation and optimization. KTI's laboratory and production of

small turbines was presented to students.

2.2.10. A tutorial for MSc Mech. Eng. students at UniTS – month M40

On 15/05/2017 Aljaž Škerlavaj conducted a tutorial for M. Sc. Mech. Eng. students at UniTS about

numerical simulation of a pump. The aim was to show how to create a mesh and how to set up the

simulation. In the end, the results were compared to available experimental results.


On 12/11/2017 a group of undergraduate students from Faculty of Mech. Engineering, University of

Maribor, Slovenia, visited Kolektor Turboinstitut. Dragica Jošt gave a presentation about hydraulic

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turbines and CFD. Afterwards, Roberto Renato Stopar and Aljaž Škerlavaj presented laboratory to the

students, with emphasis on the cavitation observation on the propeller-type turbine model.

Students in the KTI's laboratory - observation of

the flow in the propeller turbine.

2.2.12. Presentation to pupils of Strojna šola Velenje – month M47

On 19/12/2017 large group of pupils (40) from Strojna šola Velenje (High School of Mechanical

Engineering, Velenje, Slovenia), visited Kolektor Turboinstitut. Due to the large number of pupils the

group was split in two, the other one arriving when the first one was finished.

Aljaž Škerlavaj had a presentation about different types of hydraulic turbines, as well as about the

possibilities of CFD for simulations of the turbines. Matjaž Krušec presented the KTI's laboratory for

water turbine model testing.

The second group of pupils in the KTI's laboratory.

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3 Summer school – month M44

During the 25-27/09/2017, the ACCUSIM project summer school was organized at Kolektor

Turboinštitut. 36 registered participants attended the summer school not including four invited

lecturers (prof. Jure Ravnik from University of Maribor, prof. Matevž Dular, University of Ljubljana,

Maja Ondracka - private company, prof. Carlo Poloni from University of Trieste) and six lecturers

(Jošt, Škerlavaj, Morgut, Stopar, Nobile, Pavlin) who were part of the ACCUSIM project.

Nine registered participants came from University of Trieste (graduate students and PhD students),

five from University in Maribor, Faculty of Mech. Eng. (2 graduate students, 2 PhD students and one

professor), nine from University of Ljubljana (students and one PhD researcher), 11 from other

companies (also from competitive ones) and two from Kolektor Turboinštitut. Five unregistered

participants attended some of the lectures (four from KTI and one from University of Ljubljana,

Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering).

The scope of the school was to share and disseminate the knowledge and expertise, gained in the

Marie-Curie European project ACCUSIM, about the application of:

Advanced (scale-resolving) turbulence models,

OpenFOAM,

Cavitation modelling and

Design optimization

in hydraulic machines and marine propellers. Invited lecturers were also covering the four aspects of

the scope. A short resume of each presentation was included in published proceedings of the

summer school:

Accurate simulations in hydro-machinery and marine propellers : proceedings of ACCUSIM Summer

School Conference 25th - 27th September 2017, Ljubljana / [editors Dragica Jošt, Aljaž Škerlavaj]. -

Ljubljana : Kolektor Turboinštitut, 2017, ISBN 978-961-285-877-3. (The proceedings form a part of

this deliverable.)

KTI's laboratory and production of small turbines was presented to everyone interested. For those,

who were not interested to see the KTI’s laboratory, Pre and Post-processing for numerical

simulations of water turbines were presented.

All participants received printed proceedings, advertising material, a sketchbook and a pen. At the

end, the participants received the certificate of attendance.

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3.1 Summer School poster and final program

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3.2 Pictures from the Summer school

Summer school participants

A. Škerlavaj: Opening with a short presentation

of the ACCUSIM project

A. Škerlavaj: Opening with a short presentation

of the ACCUSIM project

B. Črv: Welcome speech and presentation of

Kolektor Turboinštitut

E. Nobile: Presentation of Fisica Tecnica (Thermal

Fluids) at the Dept. of Architecture and

Engineering of the University of Trieste

Jure Ravnik, University of Maribor: Turbulence

modelling

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M. Ondračka: Introduction to OpenFOAM

M. Dular, University of Ljubljana: Advanced

experimental and numerical techniques for

cavitation erosion prediction

M. Morgut: Calibration of mass transfer models

for the numerical prediction of sheet cavitation

around a hydrofoil

D. Jošt: Cavitation prediction for water turbines

C. Poloni, ESTECO: No-free lunch theorem from

an engineering perspective

R. Pavlin, KTI: Pump types and hydraulic design

approach

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A. Škerlavaj: Optimization of a double-sided

centrifugal pump

R. R. Stopar: Multi-objective optimization of the

Francis turbine runner cone

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5 Conclusions This deliverable presents dissemination activities of the ACCUSIM project, obtained through direct

communication channels. The scientific community was reached through numerous conferences,

workshop papers, presentations or posters. General technical community was reached through

presentations at user's meetings. Students and high-school pupils were reached through

presentations during visits at KTI and through presentations at UniTS. Enterprises, students and

university community were reached through the organized summer school.

During the 48 months of the project direct communication channels presented an important part of

the dissemination. It is expected that some of the results will be presented also in the forthcoming

conference(s) in 2018, with due acknowledgement of the ACCUSIM project funding.

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